Long before Apple used a guy in a tweed jacket and young hipster to compare the PC to Macintosh, there was this ad from the mid-80s that used actual computers. I have mentioned this ad to people who had never seen it, now I can display the real thing (slightly shortened unfortunately).

While advertising for Macs and Ipods primarily feature users who are young, surveys reveal that 45% of Mac users are over 55 years old, meaning those users were in their 20s and 30s when this ad premiered. I would not be surprised to find that this ad’s impact lingers to this day in the form of dedicated Mac users.

Let’s hope that the new version of Creative Suite is more friendly to designers than the glowing space cube was to the USS Enterprise.

Another disturbing take on the Adobe commercial is the slogan “What’s in the box?”. I’m sure they didn’t mean to make this comparison, but every time I hear “What’s in the box?”, I think of a gut-wrenching scene in the movie Seven.

Killer space cubes and references to gloomy David Fincher films aside, I am still happy that CS3 is almost here and how Adobe kept Fireworks around after buying out Macromedia.

Now you can read the stories I share on my Google Reader account by visiting the link on the sidebar. I try to update it every day. Most of the stories I share are web design, computer, or marketing related. Sometimes I put a story about space travel or pop culture in there too.